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be planted about three feet from each other every 

 way ; this distance will keep each sufficiently distinct, 

 and yet so united, that the whole clump will have the 

 appearance of an unbroken wood or forest of dahlias. 

 They look very handsome, if planted in the manner 

 of an avenue, in a straight line on each side of a walk. 

 The earliest flowers will appear in June. {Hort. Soc. 

 Trans, iii. 242.) 



Mr. Smith, of the Chiswick Gardens, gives the 

 following particulars of an attempt to give the tall- 

 growing kinds a dwarf appearance. After agreeing 

 with the above observations as to the best arrange- 

 ment of the flowers, he says, the dwarf appearance 

 was effected by pegging down all the young shoots as 

 fast as they grew, until the ground was nearly co- 

 vered. The shoots were then suffered to grow upright, 

 and the whole became one mass. They flowered ex- 

 tremely well, but rather late in the season, and never 

 had the appearance of being higher than two or 

 three feet and a half. The sorts selected for this ex- 

 periment were those that flower most abundantly. 

 Large-rooted plants, which produce many stems, are 

 best suited for this purpose, because such sooner fill 

 up the intervening spaces. The dwarf kinds ought 

 always to be planted either by themselves, or in front 

 of the taller ones. When planted in clumps, the 

 effect produced by them is very brilliant. (Hort, 

 Soc. Trans, vii. 161.) 



